The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says
8 points by cpncrunch 1 month ago | 5 comments- andsoitis 1 month ago> We may not yet have definitive evidence that we live in a simulation. But the deeper we look, the more our universe seems to behave like a computational process.
Does "simulation" unequivocally follow "computational"?
- RetroTechie 1 month agoNo. Lacking solid evidence, that's one for the philosophers among us.
As a sniff test: if a simulation is good enough, then from inside it you can't determine real or simulated. If not, then maybe 'glitches' could be detected, or a kind of jailbreak is possible.
But even if: why would the fundamental mechanics of our universe not look/behave like a computation? And "behaves like" != "is".
- RetroTechie 1 month ago
- romperstomper 1 month agoThis article reminds me David Chalmers' "Reality+" book, it has many similar ideas
- doitLP 1 month agoIsn’t that the point? If our simulation didn’t look like the universe, it wouldn’t be a very good one!
- Gibbon1 1 month agoClose to my thought. Our simulation of the universe looks suspiciously like a simulation.
- Gibbon1 1 month ago